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To: Davy Crockett who wrote (5614)	12/19/2001 6:02:40 PM
From: Davy Crockett	Respond to of 36161

Not good... atimes.com The terrorist assault on the Indian parliament last week in which 13 people died, including five terrorists, has tested the ruling elite's patience. Both the heavyweights in the ruling coalition, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Home Minister L K Advani, have gone out on a limb, leaving little room for retreat. If they do not initiate a wide-scale military action against Pakistan now, the Hindu fundamentalist leaders who have nurtured a single-point agenda of taming Pakistan for the past half a century of their political life, will not be able to show their faces in the forthcoming all-important elections in the largest Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. "Deeds, not words," is what will count now, Advani has himself declared numerous times in the past few days. Pakistan fears India is teetering on the brink of initiating a wide-scale military action, especially after Vajpayee's declaration that India is in a situation of zero military tolerance. New Delhi has pointed the finger at the Pakistani-based Lashkar-i-Taiba (Army of the Pure) as responsible for the attack, with Advani on Tuesday repeating the accusation in parliament. India has now given Pakistan a deadline of a few days to close down the offices of the Lashkar-i-Taiba as well as the Jaish-i-Mohammed, another militant group, and warned of "dire consequences" if it does not. Both groups are active in disputed Kashmir, where a separatist war has raged for years. Writing in India's second largest circulated magazine, Outlook, journalist Amir Mir has quoted Pakistani military sources as saying that Indian assault units have been moved to Kashmir to reinforce its defensive holding corps. India's 21 Strike Force, comprising mainly the 33rd armored division, has advanced towards Akhnoor in the Jammu region, where the Indian forward command post is located. The division was reinforced by two armored infantry brigades and mechanized artillery units from main bases in Meerut and Mathura. In addition, the Indians are transferring armored and infantry brigades to transform 16 Corps at Nagruta in Jammu, 15 Corps at Badami Bagh, Srinagar, and 14 Corps at Nimmu and Leh from defensive to attack forces. Sources say that these movements amount in practical terms to a full Indian war alert in Kashmir. In response, the Pakistani government of President General Pervez Musharraf, too, has put its armed forces on high alert and immediately called for a meeting of top military leaders to hold what is called "a sensitive strategic conference". One false move from either side, and the entire region could be sucked into a bloody, destructive conflict. War-drummers have indeed been at work, again. As analyst Harish Khare of the Hindu newspaper points out, from the night of December 13 ( the day of the attack), anchorperson after anchorperson has taken it upon himself/herself to beat the war drum as loudly as possible. The ministers are harangued for being so mealy-mouthy. If the United States could do it to Afghanistan, why can't we do it to Pakistan? Follow Israel. Tell us here and now, what is the government going to do? Spell it out. Yikes! Pretty scary when I to go abroad to get the real news Regards, Peter